Incapacitation
Penal Confinement and the Restraint of Crime
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23398369 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Franklin E Zimring, Gordon Hawkins |
| Year | 1995 |
| Pages | 188 |
| Publication date | 1995-02-09 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Incapacitation (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780195092332.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4388083426 |
| Open Library | OL1084791M |
| ISBN | 9780195092332 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 51 |
The one, sure way that imprisonment prevents crime is by restraining offenders from committing crimes while they are locked up. Called “incapacitation” by experts in criminology, this effect has become the dominant justification for imprisonment in the United States, where well over a million persons are currently in jails and prisons and public figures who want to appear tough on crime periodically urge that we throw away the key. How useful is the modern prison in restraining crime, and at what cost? How much do we really know about incapacitation and its effectiveness? This book is the first comprehensive assessment of incapacitation. Zimring and Hawkins show the increasing reliance on restraint to justify imprisonment, analyze the existing theories on incapacitation’s effects, assess the current empirical research, report a new study, and explore the links between what is known about incapacitation and what it tells us about our criminal justice policy. An insightful evaluation of a pressing policy issue, Incapacitation is a vital contribution to the current debates on our criminal justice system.
Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Imprisonment · Political science · Prison · Sociology · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints · Law · Psychology · Freiheitsstrafe · Gevangenisstraf · Penology · Social Science · united states · USA
A Cross-Cultural Study of Punishment Beliefs and Decisions
Caught in the Countryside
Crime and Punishment
Estimating the incapacitation effect among first-time incarcerated offenders
Testing Systems-Level Theories and Impacts of Supermax Prisons
Assessing Public Support for Collateral and Other Consequences of Criminal Convictions
Community justice and public safety
Reversal of Fortune
Selective Incapacitation, Three Strikes, and the Problem of Aging Prison Populations
Public Preferences for Rehabilitation Versus Incarceration of Juvenile Offenders
The Fog Around Cost‐of‐Crime Studies May Finally Be Clearing
Do progressive prosecutors increase crime? A quasi‐experimental analysis of crime rates in the 100 largest counties, 2000–2020
The Role of the Cost‐of‐Crime Literature in Bridging the Gap Between Social Science Research and Policy Making
The delayed emergence of penal modernism in Florida
Making sense of life without parole in China
Beyond populist punitiveness
Decarceration and its possible effects on inmates, staff, and communities
Governing Social Marginality
The theory and practice of supermax prisons
Degrees of Estrangement
Assessing the Impact of Exposure Time and Incapacitation on Longitudinal Trajectories of Criminal Offending
Accounting for the Diversity of Policing in Ireland
Marking Time in the Golden State
The Criminal Career
Parole Release and Supervision
The Mood and Temper of the Public
The Sentencing Advisory Commission and the Hope of Smarter Sentencing
Exploring Risk Governance in the Nordic Context
Drug and crime cycle
The Prison and the Gallows
Crimes of Terror, Counterterrorism, and the Unanticipated Consequences of a Militarized Incapacitation Strategy in Iraq
The solution to the dilemma presented by the guilty plea discount
Model Penal Code
Benefit-Cost Analysis of Crime Prevention Programs
The Future of Parole Release
Incarceration, Social Capital, and Crime
The Effect of Supermaximum Security Prisons on Aggregate Levels of Institutional Violence
Crime, Arrests, and Pretrial Jail Incarceration
State Prison Populations and Their Growth, 1971–1991
The Impact of Florida's Habitual Offender Law on Crime
Selective Incapacitation and the Problem of Prediction
Killing Is Just The Best Solution’
Patterns of Change in the Use of Imprisonment in the American States
Throwing Away the Key
Why do we punish? Deterrence and just deserts as motives for punishment
The Transformation of America's Penal Order
Gender Bound
Mass Incarceration, Macrosociology, and the Poor
Sentencing (and) the Underclass
A Brief History of Doing Time
Incarceration and the Formation and Stability of Marital Unions
| Unique citing works | 51 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,76 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2025 (29) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 51 |